Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas…

Life, the Universe and Everything (original 1982; edition 1997)

by Douglas Adams (Author)

Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3)

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!.… (more)

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The third installment on this trilogy of five (as its called on the cover). I read it a long time ago I can't really remember the details of what happens in this book, and separate it from what happens on the others.
But I would say that the answer is 42. If you want to know the question you have to read the book. (

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Artemisa | Dec 30, 2024 |

Peak again baby lets go

*points off for needing a baseline understanding of how to play cricket (

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Tgoldhush | Dec 26, 2024 |

With this book, the author’s inspiration ran out. In its pages, his characters continue to have mind-boggling adventures all over the galaxy, but somehow they’ve ceased to be memorable or funny.

It’s not so bad a book that I can’t finish it. It’s not actively unpleasant, and it’s more entertaining than watching paint dry. However, having finished it, I wonder why I bothered.

It reminds me of the aimless adventures of Rincewind, the least entertaining of Terry Pratchett’s principal characters. Arthur Dent differs from Rincewind in some ways, but he has much the same function of escaping from each pointless adventure only to land in another. (

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jpalfrey | Dec 17, 2024 |

Arthur Dent, sole survivor of Earth's destruction and time traveler in the Galaxy, has now spent 5 years living back on pre-historic Earth, alone, in a cave. He is visited and insulted by immortal alien Wowbagger who has made it his mission to insult everyone in the Galaxy. Two years later Ford Prefect shows up and they head off on another adventure to save the Universe from the Krikkits who want to destroy everything. This follows the same sort of loony story as previous books. I didn't find this as funny as the first. I did like Arthur's run in with the being who was killed by him in every form of reincarnation that he had, from fly to rabbit, cow to newt, frog to fish. (

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Linda-C1 | Sep 26, 2024 |

Yeah, it’s a long shaggy dog joke but my goodness it’s amazingly well told. The first two installments may be well better but that speaks more to just how good thise books are than it does about the (small) failings of this little treat! It’s still charming and very funny throughout. (

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EME1963 | Sep 24, 2024 |

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Adams delights in cosmic pratfalls, and if he sometimes loses track of his narrative, he more than makes up for it by confirming what many have suspected all along: "He learned to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries."

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The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!.

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads–so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galazy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it–and don’t know it!
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Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
Γυρίστε το γαλαξία με ωτοστόπ III : Η ζωή, το σύμπαν και τα πάντα / Douglas Adams · μετάφραση Δημήτρης Αρβανίτης. - 1η έκδ. - Αθήνα : Ars Longa, 1989. - 180σ. · 21.8x11.8εκ. - (Γυρίστε τον Γαλαξία με Ωτοστόπ · 3)
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Γλώσσα πρωτοτύπου: αγγλικά
Τίτλος πρωτοτύπου: Life, the Universe and Everything, 1982
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